Suggesting that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role, this book argues that any reader of Shakespeare, scholar, student, or general reader, approaches Shakespeare through edited versions that have a relationship to what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written. "Erne offers a succinct review of contemporary debates over editorial practice and, most important, foregrounds the relationship between editing and production, raising many relevant questions that warrant the attention of editors, directors, and instructors. Summing up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals." - R. A. Stritmatter, CHOICE, September 2008